Q clearance

American  

noun

1. (in the Nuclear Regulatory Commission) the highest level of security clearance, permitting access to secret information, documents, etc., relating to nuclear research.

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Example Sentences

Her next documented stop in 1949 was Hanford, where she was hired by GE and held a Q clearance.

From Seattle Times

Betty held a Q clearance in early 1953 but soon left and wouldn’t be considered for reinstatement based on the FBI’s findings.

From Seattle Times

He was stripped of his Q clearance in 1954, as chronicled in the movie.

From Seattle Times

The first of them to reach Hanford, in February 1944, was Edith, a clerk with the Army Corps of Engineers, and Claire, who began working at an unclassified job but later gained a Q clearance to become a “computer” in the plant’s transportation division for General Electric Co.

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Diane arrived in 1948 and got Q clearance as a laborer in GE’s health estimate department.

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